Hi,
On 08/19/2015 11:57 AM, Chino Aureus wrote:
>
> Hi NGinx users,
>
> Not sure if this is off topic.
>
> Need help on what would be the recommended setup/architecture for
> consuming external web apis (e.g. twitter, Facebook APIs) securely
> from an application deployed in an internal network. And how NGINX
> can augment in this use case.
>
> This is what I have in mind but I'm not sure if this is a supported
> setup of nginx.
>
> InternalAPP --> (DMZ) NGINX -> external web api.
>
> Appreciate any advise :)

If you're trying to limit your application calls to outside, ex. let's
say your app can connect only to:

api.google.com

or

api.facebook.com

this seems more a job for a forwar proxy, typically squid.


>
> Regards,
> Chino

Frederik
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